Identify entities for analysis
Use the entity catalog and its dashboards to view and manage all of your entities. The entity catalog comprehensively lists every service, node, Pod, and so on in your environment and provides tools for analyzing them. For instance, you can:
- Filter the catalog by entity type and then search for a specific entity
- Select an entity and view context-sensitive details, such as the service overview.
- Add an entity to RCA workbench and go to the workbench for root cause analysis
Before you begin
Before you use the entity catalog, ensure you have completed the following:
- Check that your infrastructure and applications generate metrics, logs, and traces
- Activate the knowledge graph
Open the entity catalog
Sign into Grafana and click Observability > Entity catalog.
Group entities
The entity catalog groups entities by type: service, node, Pod, and other entity types. You can further narrow the entities displayed by selecting grouping criteria, such as insight rings, instrumentation status, and so on.
Inventory
The entity catalog shows a paginated list of filtered entities.
Each row contains an insight ring that displays any insights that have fired. If the entity is healthy, the insight ring displays a healthy status.
The entity catalog is context-sensitive in that the initial health information displayed depends on the type of entity. For example, a service displays application monitoring performance data, such as RED metrics, while a node displays CPU, memory, and disk information pertinent to Kubernetes monitoring.
Click an entity name to navigate to the entity details. The entity details is also context-sensitive to the entity you select.
